Thumbstick click carries a mini joystick similar to those found on popular game controllers. The dual-axis, spring-return, pushbutton-enabled joystick receives directional input by way of two potentiometers. The pushbutton sends an interrupt signal to your target board's microcontroller. The analog signal is converted to digital with the MCP3204 12-bit A/D converter, then sent to the target board through mikroBUS SPI (CS, SCK, MISO and MOSI) lines.

Put this stick to use in your embedded projects and have 360-degree motion for fine control of RC cars, planes, or graphical user interfaces.

This board is designed to use either a 3.3V or a 5V power supply, determined by the on-board J1 solder jumper (in 3.3V position by default).

Note: The picture shows the board with through-hole headers. The board now comes populated with male pin headers already soldered for your convenience. The board's user manual has yet to be updated to remove the soldering instructions.

mikroBUS Click Boards Overview

Click boards plug directly into a mikroBUS socket. mikroBUS is a specially designed plug-and-play pinout standard. The sockets are found on Clicker boards, the Flip & Click Arduino/Python-compatible board, the Quail board, these mikromedia shields, the Microchip Curiosity board, and development systems from mikroElektronika (V7 systems and later).

You also can connect Click boards to many other popular platforms via these adapters: